Word: gideon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) overruled Betts and fully extended the right to counsel in all felony trials. A rare winner, Florida Indigent Clarence Gideon was later retried and found innocent of attempted burglary...
Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination (Malloy v. Hogan in 1964) and the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel (Gideon v. Wainwright in 1963). To be sure, the court said flatly in 1904: "The Sixth Amendment does not apply to proceedings in state criminal courts." But in the light of Gideon, Malloy and other "absorption" cases, ruled Black, statements "generally declaring that the Sixth Amendment does not apply to states can no longer be regarded as law." After reversing Pointer's conviction on these grounds, the court emphasized its new doctrine by doing exactly the same...
...course, and once in a while even a mechanical slipup, like the business with the elevator. The assistant general manager "made a mental note" to find out what was wrong as early as page 40. But what with one thing and another (if he wasn't replacing all Gideon Bibles bearing call girls' phone numbers on the frontispiece, he was busy "pensively knotting" a Schiaparelli tie) it gets to be page 352 before he gives the matter his urgent attention-far too late to save the book, much less elevator No. 4, from plunging to fictional disaster, certain...
...constitutional phrases are expanding faster than the Sixth Amendment's guarantee that every criminal defendant shall "have the assistance of counsel for his defense." In 1963, the Supreme Court extended that right to all defendants in all state criminal trials (Gideon v. Wainwrighf). In 1964, the Court ruled that a suspect is entitled to a lawyer as soon as the police start grilling him in the station house (Escobedo v. Illinois). Lower courts are now catching on fast. Items...
...phenomenon comparable to the effect of 1963's Gideon v. Wainwright, which led to the retrial and acquittal of Florida Indigent Clarence Earl Gideon and gave all defendants the right to counsel in state criminal trials. In Florida alone, 5,554 previously convicted prisoners have since petitioned for new trials, and 1,081 have already won their freedom...